Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1887-02-12
A HUNTERS EXPERIENCES.
D. nuntlng In VElseonsIn.

Deer Hunting in Wisconsin.
By Capt. L. j. Perry.
About the goth OF October, 1886,
We pitched our hunting camp on Bog
brook, a small tributary of the upper
Wolf river In northern Wisconsin. 1t is
in lake regiOn-there are perhaps a
dozen small lakes from a quarter of a
mile 90 two miles in length IN the i'm
mediate neighborhoOd. Bog brook in
fact is the outlet to chain of three or
four Of the lonely lakes. The country
around sOout is an alienation Of sharp
hills, rolling ground and dense white
cedar (arbOr vitae, by the way) and
tamarack swamps, with numerous spring
brooks winding down toward the river.
The high ground is also covered with
heavy growth of timber,-pine. hemlock,
spruce, cedar, birch, sUgsr maple and
elna,-the evergreens predominating. 1t
is a rough, miry, rocky, brushy, darksome
region, the natural home Of the red deer
For two or three weeks after setting
up camp, sport was poor; hunting was
unsatisfactory. Up to the 18th Of No
vember the party had only killed three
deer. Between that date and December
10th the three Of us dOWned sixteen
more. The trouble in the beginning was
the long continued dry spell; the noisy
dry leaVes-six inches deep-made sue
cessful still-hunting almost impossible
certainly unsatisfactOry- except in the
low mOss-cOyered hemlOck grounds next
the great swamps, through which one
eoIld slip without much noise. The
first tracking snow came about the mid
die OF November. Notwithstanding the
drawbacks I kept to the woods the most
OF the time and hunted faithfully. 1 saw
quite a number Of deer the first three
weeks and got good many sh IFS, but
not very fair ones.
The htst deer killed by the party was
the biggest doe on record She weighed
209 pounds dressed out-that Is, not
skinned but disemboWled-an was the
latest deer L ever saw. Her meat on the
ribs was veritably a streak OF lean and a
streak of fat, and brOiled on the Goals
came nearer corn fed beef than any wild
meat that has fallen to my lot. Ny
brother Frank killed this magnificent
deer ahead of the dog early one frosty
morning. Frank worked it fine on the
rest of us In this affair His little game
was Lllas w e 4Aa4 run AAlAn SUNS A-Io
with Custer the preceding day, and she
had thrown the dog OF by taking to the
creek after about an hours run. Frank
had been stationed on a runway near
whsre she took to the water, and made
observation Of the spot. Early the next
morning it fell to Lute's lot to start the
dog, and at Franks suggestion he went
back on the ridge where the dog had
jumped the doe the day before snd there
turned old Custer loose.
Deer have a home and habitation In a
particular locality same as man. chase
him out Of his home one day and he is
sure to return to it the same night,
ready for another run the next day. L
took a station at a big runway crossing
the creek half q mile below camp; Frank
went directly to the point where the doe
had run down to thu water the previous
morning, half a mile below me, and Ed.
AIitchler was sent to the creek half a
mile still below Frank. All was quiet
for an hour; it began to look as il Lutte
and Custer had failed to ''start." Pres
entity, however, Old Clusters boom faint
~ sounded from the hills Ia the diree-
ton Of the WindfaIl, and each moment 1t
breed up louderi the game was aioot